Aquarelle und Zeichnungen von Carsten Wieland

Sea View Hotel #worldwatercolormonth

This is one of my favorite motives and the one, that made me start painting watercolors, beside the strong impression, that American abandoned houses left on me. This old Victorian mansion built on wooden pillars, originally constructed at the beach and now conquered and surrounded by the sea appears in my dreams from time to time since I was a kid. And it appeared in one of my first watercolors when I started to paint in autumn 2014. Because this building appears in my mind again and again I decided that it was about time to paint it again: If you follow me for a while you will probably see this motive from time to time. When I painted this one yesterday and then compared it with my first approach I had the feeling that I made some progress since I started with watercolors. This one was painted in about 30 minutes just from memory without any pre-pencil-sketching and has much more expression than the first one, which took me several hours and looked a little bit dull. A good feeling! The other sketch below was just a little warm-up.

Thanks so much, Aletha! I wish i would have more time for painting. Then i would paint this motive in 10 – 20 different versions as it appeared in my dreams. They would be pretty different from each other.